U.S. Border Enforcement - ICE will get you

[GoblinCampFollower]

Mind you, when I looked at the numbers of H-1B visa-holders employed by various companies, I thought the people whose businesses will be most affected -- Musk, Besos and Zuckerberg -- could probably pay these exorbitant fees out of their own pockets for all their employees affected by the measure and hardly notice.

I suspect it's yet another shakedown.

Most companies like mine don't do H1B because it's already too expensive for them to justify. Adding this fee is just another big, pain. This is a bit personal for me since I've tried to help good candidates get hired who we couldn't hire due to immigration nonsense.

 

[Soen Eber]

All he's going to do is make US companies non-competitive with the global market. I sure am glad I'm not a recent graduate anymore and have to live with 40 years of consequences for this.

 

[Casey Pelous]

All he's going to do is make US companies non-competitive with the global market. I sure am glad I'm not a recent graduate anymore and have to live with 40 years of consequences for this.

I think the US companies will just open more India offices.

If you have 100 engineers on H1B's, that's $10,000,000 every time they renew their visas.

As the old saying goes, $10 M here, $10 M there, and first thing you know you're talking about real money!

 

[Free]

As the old saying goes, $10 M here, $10 M there, and first thing you know you're talking about real money!

/me sputters

That...is not an old saying!!!

 

[Casey Pelous]

/me sputters

That...is not an old saying!!!

Typo. I meant bold saying. Bold. Yeah, that's it.

 

[Essence Lumin]

Researchers have been unable to track down the quotation most commonly associated with Dirksen. Perhaps he never said it, but the comment would have been entirely in character. Cautioning that federal spending had a way of getting out of control, Dirksen reportedly observed, “A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money."

This singularly colorful Senate leader died at the age of 73 on September 7, 1969.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

H-1B: Man spent $8,000 on flights to get back to the US after visa fears

US officials later clarified current H-1B holders were unaffected but immigration lawyers already advised people to return.

www.bbc.com

In the event he need not have worried, since the administration later explained the new fees will not apply to people who already hold the visas, but it gives an indication of the disruption and distress caused by this kind of thoughtless and performative executive action.

 

[Beebo Brink]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Reuters has some in-depth coverage of the scramble caused by the announcement about H-B1 visa fees

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sustainable-finance-reporting/fast-furious-h-1b-workers-abroad-race-us-trump-order-sparks-dismay-confusion-2025-09-21/

 

[detrius]

So, do I have to pay 100K directly to Trump, drop the money at one of his golf courses, or just give an envelope with US$ 20K to that Homan guy?

Oh wait, I'm not going to Trumpland anyway.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

So, do I have to pay 100K directly to Trump, drop the money at one of his golf courses, or just give an envelope with US$ 20K to that Homan guy?

Oh wait, I'm not going to Trumpland anyway.

Financial Times UK explores plan to drop visa fees for top global talent

Sir Keir Starmer is exploring proposals to abolish some visa fees for top global talent at a time when the US has moved sharply in the other direction. The British prime minister’s “global talent task force” is working on ideas to lure to the UK the world’s best scientists, academics and digital experts, as it seeks to stimulate economic growth.

Evernote Link

 

[Casey Pelous]

So, do I have to pay 100K directly to Trump, drop the money at one of his golf courses, or just give an envelope with US$ 20K to that Homan guy?

Oh wait, I'm not going to Trumpland anyway.

Send me L$50,000 and I'll See What I Can Do(tm). *meaningful eyebrow action*

 

[Free]

1 dead, 2 in critical condition after shooting at Dallas ICE facility

Follow updates in the Dallas ICE facility shooting, where one person, and the suspect, are dead

www.nbcnews.com

Two of the three people shot at a Dallas ICE field office this morning are dead, an ICE spokesperson said. The third person is in the hospital.

The three people shot do not include the shooter, who is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

All three people shot were detainees at the facility, and no ICE agents were shot or hurt.

*sigh*

 

[Cindy Claveau]

I shouldn't be surprised, but the news media this morning is all over the Dallas shooting .... not from the perspective of injured or dead immigrants, but "ICE is under attack".

No ICE agents were injured in the shooting but yeh let's worry about the masked fascists.

 

[Khamon]

This singularly colorful Senate leader died at the age of 73 on September 7, 1969.

So thirty years ago, yeah, that's old.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

I have to say that writing "ANTI-ICE" in blue sharpie on one of the shell cases (not even "FUCK ICE") and then shooting only detainees sounds a bit sus.

Nowt so strange as folk, though, as my late grannie used to say.

 

[detrius]

I have to say that writing "ANTI-ICE" in blue sharpie on one of the shell cases (not even "FUCK ICE") and then shooting only detainees sounds a bit sus.

Nowt so strange as folk, though, as my late grannie used to say.

Is this guy now going to present signed bullets after each shooting?

The absurdity kinda reminds me of the "Quick Mysteries" from Rick & Morty.

 

[Soen Eber]

I shouldn't be surprised, but the news media this morning is all over the Dallas shooting .... not from the perspective of injured or dead immigrants, but "ICE is under attack".

No ICE agents were injured in the shooting but yeh let's worry about the masked fascists.

Like detrius, I wouldn't put it past some people to conduct a false flag operation either.

 

[Lexxi]

So thirty years ago, yeah, that's old.

1969 was 30 years ago? Yay! I'm actually young!

 

[Cindy Claveau]

Like detrius, I wouldn't put it past some people to conduct a false flag operation either.

The really twisted thing is, I could actually believe the R's are capable of such asininities.